Anyone else think that whatever it is on the US cover of Valis III, it kinda looks like a man ?
Believe me, you are not alone. Far, faaaaaar from it!
I don't understand why they feel the need to do this when A) It looks nothing like the character, B) the game has extensive cutscenes where the character appears exactly like she does on the original box art, thusly making their whole re-design seem futile and utterly pointless and C) they have stills of the game on front of the box anyway !
She makes Xena Warrior Princess look like Barbie. Upon examining the cover with a magnify glass, there appear to be whiskers growing off her chin.
<<insert Photoshop'd image here, preferably using the magnify glass graphic from Darkwing Duck>>
That would indeed be awesome
Also Lucy Lawless was pretty hot back in the day.
Honestly, I still don't get it. Were there licensing issues with the original covert art, or were the people in charge just horribly anti-Japanese ? I mean there's one thing if you have say an 8 bit title on the NES, (and even that was capable of some form of cutscenes but whatever), then you can redesign the character on the boss if you like but if the game itself has lengthy cutscenes portraying the character exactly like they were on the cover originaly, then I ask you WHAT IS THE POINT ?
